Dec/Jan 21–22
Featuring interviews with Radcliffe Bailey, Debra Bricker Balken, Mary Ann Caws, Neil Jenney, Jennifer Packer, and Cinga Samson, + a panel on Jasper Johns. Guest Critic W. J. T. Mitchell: “Sounding the Idols.”
The “Dec/Jan 21–22” Issue of the Brooklyn Rail was published on December 8, 2021.
Critics Page
Sounding the Idols
– By W. J. T. MitchellIdolizing Systems: That Doesn't Sound Right
– By Mieke BalResistant Noise
– By Janice Misurell-MitchellDenounce, Resist, Change, Struggle
– By Charles BernsteinOh, Say Can you Sing?
– By Hannah B HigginsMuse-ecology: on birds and other tuning forks
– By John Paul RiccoEar Witness
– By Lawrence Abu HamdanUntitled
– By Marjorie PerloffNarcissus in Black, Brown and White
– By Omar KholeifBetter a Good Ear than a Good Law
– By Peter GoodrichAnd They Dimmed the Sun
– By Tanya Jayani FernandoThe Birth of Music out of the Spirit of Critical Idolatry?
– By Seth BrodskyThe Idol of White, a CANTO (after EP)
– By Jon BordoIconophobia or idolatry
– By Luca Del Baldo